October 24, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Australia’s IC Markets is latest forex broker to add the Tradable app platform

List of brokers offering Tradable forex trading apps continues to grow.... Australia-based IC Markets has become the latest retail forex broker to offer Tradable's trading apps to its clients. IC Markets currently offers both MetaTrader and the cTrader ECN platform. Tradable's list of clients now includes both Monex's (Monex Japan and Monex Indonesia), UK brokers Tradenext…

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October 24, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Tradenext adds X Open Hub’s web platform

Tradenext has adopted X Open Hub's front and back office technology under the proprietary name FlexStation. FSA-regulated and Indian-owned FX broker Tradenext has decided to add X Financial Solutions' X Open Hub web trader to its existing MT4 and Tradable app platforms. LeapRate readers will recall that Tradenext was the first broker to formally launch…

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October 23, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Would Scotland independence mean a new Scottish currency?

With a Scottish independence referendum a year away, how would this complication be handled? UK spreadbetting and forex industry firms must be licking their chops at the prospect of Scotland launching its own currency, as Scotland nears its referendum on independence on September 18, 2014. UK retail trading clients rank among the highest worldwide in…

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October 23, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

NASDAQ partnership deal helps Moscow Exchange attract IPOs

One small step for NASDAQ, one giant leap for Russian technology companies. NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and Moscow Exchange have just signed a deal that brings smiles to the faces of the Russian tech community. A co-operation between the exchanges is exciting news for the Russian technology and biotech sectors. The aim of the agreement is…

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October 23, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

LCH.Clearnet taps ex Citi exec Suneel Bakhshi as its new CEO

LCH was without a CEO since LSE's takeover of the multi-asset clearing house back in May. Multi-national clearing house LCH.Clearnet has announced that Suneel Bakhshi has been appointed as its new CEO. Whilst the final confirmation is pending a regulatory approval the new chief executive officer is expected to join the company in early 2014.…

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October 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Windsor Brokers becomes first client for new forex trading platform Gwazy

Market for new and 'different' forex trading platforms is getting crowded. Cyprus based MT4 forex broker Windsor Brokers just announced that they are starting to offer to their clients a rather different methodology of trading, on the newly-introduced Gwazy platform. Judging from Gwazy's cartoonish logo at left, the platform is targeted as a 'fun' trading…

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October 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

LeapRate crosses Alexa 100,000 threshold

A quick note of thanks to all of our customers, friends and loyal readers... It has been less than three years since we launched LeapRate as a reliable and objective source of information and analysis for the online forex sector, and what we've achieved has certainly exceeded our expectations. We're now pleased to report that…

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October 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Russian regulators look to ban foreign brokers from advertising

Newly installed Russia regulatory head Sergey Shvetsov seems to be heading strongly toward regulating the forex sector. As first appeared in Forexbrokerz...  Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Shvetsov was quoted in ITAR-TASS (in Russian) as saying that as financial regulator he is looking at banning advertising by foreign brokers in Russia.…

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October 22, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FXTrade Japan uses Tradologic to upgrade its binary options platform

Tradologic's option types are fully compliant with the new binary options regulations in Japan. Binary options platform provider Tradologic has announced that they have been hired to upgrade the binary solution of mid-size Japan FX broker FXTrade. FXTRade began life as an IB of GFT and later became a white label of Saxo Bank, before…

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